Full screen folding mobile phone – Huawei Mate X

“Samsung’s Galaxy Fold announcement isn’t even a week old yet, and we already have a competitor that is thinner, has a bigger screen, and folds flatter. Say hello to the Huawei Mate X.” – The Verge, a well-known technology website from the United States, highly praised Huawei Mate X.

At the MWC 2019 World Mobile Conference in Barcelona, Huawei suddenly released its first folding screen phone, Huawei Mate X. The Mate X is equipped with a Kirin 980 processor, an 8-inch large wraparound OLED display, and uses Huawei’s first 7nm Balong 5G chip. The maximum download speed of four 5G antennas is 4.6Gbps. Far more than the transmission speed of similar 5G mobile phones. Mate X has a built-in 4500mAh battery and supports 55W super fast charge, which can be filled to 85% in 30 minutes. In addition, the Mate X is equipped with a dual SIM card slot, and the side power button has both fingerprint recognition and is quite luxurious in configuration.

As a rare folding screen phone in the industry, Mate X has a size close to that of a tablet. In the folded state, the thickness of the whole machine is 11 mm, the main screen size is about 6.6 inches, the resolution is 2480*1148; the rear screen size is about 6.4 inches, and the resolution is 2480*892. After the Mate X is unfolded, the body of the fuselage is only 5.4 mm, and the 8-inch screen resolution is 2480*2200. The Samsung Galaxy Fold has a thickness of about 11.9 mm in a folded state and a screen opening size of 7.3 inches. (Samsung Galaxy fold folding screen price and parameters) The Huawei Mate X screen is thinner and larger in size.

Unlike the Samsung Folding’s outer folding design, Huawei’s middle are connected by complex hinges, which makes the Mate X fold without leaving a gap like the Samsung Galaxy Fold.

But the same as the Samsung Galaxy Fold, because the glass can not be bent, Mate X’s screen also chooses plastic material, so it is not as wear-resistant as glass. For dealing with wear, reflection, crease and other issues, perhaps Huawei has found Other solutions, such as using a special coating.

For this Mate X, Huawei is working hard on R&D. Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group, said that Huawei engineers have only spent at least three years on the external folding solution. The design has more than 100 components and has been patented. At present, Huawei Mate X is priced at 2,299 euros at MWC 2019, equipped with 8GB of memory + 512GB of storage space.